Up to this point, I was doing what others do: Just using the blown up [company]Apple[/company] iPhone interface on an iPad for [company]Google[/company] Play Music. The new app looks much better; fully optimized for the iPad’s larger screen and complete with Google’s Material Design language.

Google says its iPad app shows descriptive pages with artist and album info — I see information pulled in from Wikipedia on Eric Clapton’s page, for example — along with an immersive Now Playing page for every song.

I’m not sure why it took Google so long to expand its Play Music app from the iPhone version, but so far it looks good: Visually crisp and informative with larger controls made for iPad. And you can still have music curated based on your mood, environment or time of day.